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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePlaywright and screenwriter Tony Kushner has spoken out in support of director Jonathan Glazer who is facing backlash over his Oscars acceptance speech.Kushner, who has won Pulitzer and Tony awards for his play Angels in America, said on the Haaretz Podcast released Wednesday that he identified with Glazer’s speech and described it as “really sort of unimpeachable, irrefutable…

The playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner has come to the defence of director Jonathan Glazer, whose speech at the Oscars nearly a fortnight ago continues to polarise opinion.Picking up his award for best foreign language film on 10 March, Glazer related his film, The Zone of Interest, to current events in the Middle East.He said he hoped his movie, which shows the domestic lives of Rudolph and Hedwig Höss just outside the walls of Auschwitz, where he was camp commandant, “shows where dehumanisation leads, at its…

At the start of the 2010s, rates of teenage mental illness took a sharp upward turn, and they have been rising ever since. Among US college students, diagnoses of depression and anxiety more than doubled between 2010 and 2018. More worrying still, in the decade to 2020 the number of emergency room visits for self-harm rose by 188% among teenage girls in the US and 48% among boys. The suicide rate for younger adolescents also increased, by 167% among girls and 91% among boys. A similar trend has been observed in the UK and…

Tony Kushner has come out in support of Jonathan Glazer‘s Oscars acceptance speech, describing the British directer’s comments at the ceremony as an “unimpeachable irrefutable statement.” Speaking on the Haaretz Podcast which was released Wednesday, Kushner, a four-time Academy Award nominated screenwriter, was asked about his feelings about a number of topics related to the Israel-Gaza conflict and was directly about Glazer’s speech which has been attacked by some Jewish figures in Hollywood and was…

Jewish figures are speaking out in support of Jonathan Glazer amid a backlash over the Zone of Interest director’s Oscar speech, with some calling his words “honest and brave”.While accepting the award for best international film, Glazer said he refuted his “Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people” in Gaza and Israel. His speech drew applause in the Dolby Theatre but was quickly condemned by groups such as Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and this…

Sir Jonathan Pryce has said his former co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson would make “a great” James Bond.The 76-year-old actor, who starred as Bond villain Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies, also starred alongside Taylor-Johnson in BBC drama Sherlock Holmes And The Baker Street Irregulars.Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Wednesday (20 March), following rumours that Taylor-Johnson is set to become the next 007, Sir Jonathan said: “He’s grown into a wonderful actor and when he was a little younger, he did this…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeShe Said actor Zoe Kazan, the band Massive Attack and I’m a Virgo creator Boots Riley are among the stars showing support for director Jonathan Glazer, following the backlash he received for his Oscars speech.Glazer brought some audience members to tears while accepting the Best International Film award. He won the gong for The Zone of Interest, his movie following the domestic…

Jonathan Majors Lands In New Trouble (Photo Credit – Facebook) Jonathan Majors has once again landed in a new and fresh lawsuit – courtesy of his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. She filed the lawsuit in New York federal court. He was convicted of assaulting Grace in a trial last year. Now, Jabbari has revealed some more instances of his abuse of her throughout their relationship. Scroll below for more. As per reports, Grace and Jonathan met on the sets of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in 2021 and were together for…

Fallout from a New York jury’s conviction of Jonathan Majors for misdemeanor reckless assault and harassment has erupted in a lawsuit against the actor from ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, who claims that she alerted Majors’ management team of abuse in 2021. Jabbari, in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in New York federal court, brings claims for battery, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, malicious prosecution and defamation, which arises from Majors denying that he abused the professional…

Jonathan Majors' former girlfriend sued him Tuesday on civil allegations including assault, battery, defamation and infliction of emotional distress, three months after the actor was convicted in a criminal trial of assaulting her in New York City. HT Image Grace Jabbari, a 31-year-old British dancer, filed the action in federal court in Manhattan, claiming Majors subjected her to escalating incidents of physical and verbal abuse from 2021 to 2023. Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news!…